Jury convicts Pa. choir director on 2 of 16 counts

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia high school choral director has been convicted on two of 16 charges stemming from students’ allegations of improper conduct.

The (Doylestown) Intelligencer says Bucks County jurors deliberated over three days before reaching a verdict Monday in the case of 38-year-old Tyrone Dinkins.

Jurors on Monday convicted the William Tennent High School choir director of two counts of corruption of minors, deadlocked on an indecent assault count and acquitted him of other counts.

Dinkins, who declined comment after the trial, hugged his attorney after the verdict. Prosecutor Maureen Spang, who also declined comment until after sentencing, said her office had not decided whether to retry Dinkins on the indecent assault count.